New federal Medicaid rules, for the first time, set standards to ensure that Medicaid-funded home and community-based services (HCBS) are provided in settings that are non-institutional in nature. These standards, which took effect in March 2014, apply to residential settings,…

IF YOU LIVE IN SHASTA, SISKIYOU, LASSEN OR MODOC COUNTIES, THIS IS FOR YOU: All persons living in the northern half of our service area who have Medi-Cal, Medi-Cal/Medicare, Healthy Families or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families for health insurance…

NOTICE REGARDING IN-HOME SUPPORTIVE SERVICES (IHSS) In 2009, the State of California tried to cut IHSS domestic and related hours and to cut funds for IHSS workers who make more than $9.50 an hour. In 2011, the State tried to cut…

EARLY DEATH REPLACED BY DISABILITY AS MOST SIGNIFICANT HEALTH RISK “The health of most of the planet’s population is rapidly coming to resemble that of the United States, where death in childhood is rare, too much food is a bigger…

In what may be a victim of election season politics, a landmark bill dubbed “The Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights,” Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed Assemblymember Tom Ammiano’s AB 889 at the last minute on Sunday 9/30/12, stalling efforts to provide…